Stainless Steel Cable Management Systems

(23/07/2007)

Electrix International Ltd offers a comprehensive range encompassing trunking, conduit, cable tray, wire basket cable tray, enclosures and cabinets. Over a thousand different stainless steel products are available from stock for immediate despatch and if there is nothing in their standard range which is suitable for your application, they can manufacture special items to customers’ requirements with short lead times.

Their fully-welded Xetex trunking offers many advantages compared with alternative trunking systems. As well as the obvious benefits of stainless steel (hygiene, durability, corrosion-resistance), the Xetex range features fully welded accessory parts, ensuring a quicker, smoother, easier to clean installation and none of the “bug traps” associated with other trunking systems.

Furthermore, many parts feature pre-fitted couplings, which results in labour savings through faster installation times. Also, stainless steel can be cut and drilled on site using just a hacksaw and a hand drill - no expensive special equipment is required.

With a full range of accessories, they can offer a versatile system which is readily adaptable to the desired cabling layout. Other refinements available as options include apex trunking lids and dividers to separate power and control cabling. The dividers are securely fitted using welded studs, ensuring a safe installation, unlike the inferior methods used on competing products. For those customers requiring an even higher degree of corrosion resistance, they can offer the complete range in 316 stainless steel to order.

As well as traditional closed systems like trunking, the company manufactures stainless steel wire basket cable tray, with its advantages of improved cable ventilation and the flexibility of easily creating bends and tees on site to fit any cabling configuration, simply using basket lengths and clamps. This can result in major savings in planning, design and installation time for our customers.

For the majority of cable tray applications, however, traditional sheet stainless steel remains the customer’s first choice of material, as it provides a stronger method of cable support, offering a greater degree of protection than basket. Electrix offers a full range of accessories and with 5 different tray systems available from stock, we are the market’s leading stainless steel cable tray supplier.

For areas which are regularly washed down with high-pressure water jets, their range of IP67 (immersion-proof) conduit systems can, if properly installed and sealed, stand up to the most rigorous cleaning regimes and fully protect the cables within from mechanical, chemical and water damage.

The most sensitive of electrical components can be housed in complete security in their range of water- and dust-tight stainless steel enclosures. As well as small screwed-lid terminal and push-button enclosures, they provide hinged-door enclosures for housing larger items of equipment.

A new feature, which has proved very popular in wash-down processing environments, is the 15º sloping roof incorporated into the most popular sizes of screwed-lid enclosures. This has obvious benefits when it comes to shedding surface water and preventing the deposit of both objects and dirt on the enclosures once installed.

As they only manufacture in stainless steel, there is no chance of products being contaminated by mild or galvanised steel either during production or while in storage awaiting despatch.

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